Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf: The Super Adventure (喜羊羊与灰太狼之牛气冲天) is the first movie in the wildly popular Chinese cartoon series Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf. It premiered around Chinese New Year's 2009, releasing on January 16th of that year.
Mr. Slowy's trusty snail Grany Snail has become slow. That wouldn't be a problem, except Grany Snail is usually a Speedy Snail. The goats find out that Grany Snail is sick and has a bacteria war going on in him, so they shrink to the size of bacteria to stop the conflict, having to stop one particular bacteria named Cha Cha along the way.
This wouldn't be the last film in the series; far from it. Its unprecedented success in Chinese theaters would pave the way for a full-fledged film series, with a sequel, Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf: The Tiger Prowess, releasing in 2010.
The official Pleasant Goat YouTube channel has uploaded the film here
with English subtitles.
Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf: The Super Adventure contains the following tropes:
- Animated Outtakes: The end credits have bloopers playing in them. Example scenes include one of the Black Bull Kingdom bacteria cheating at Rock–Paper–Scissors by quickly changing from rock to scissors to avoid the White Bull Kingdom bacteria's paper, Wolnie and Wilie having a barbecue using the fire from Wolffy's Infernal Background, and Cha Cha going to the bathroom after consuming Wolffy, leaving him in a pile of blue feces.
- Burning with Anger: When Mr. Slowy gets angry at Wolnie for pestering him over Wolffy, he is surrounded by a flame.
- Cain and Abel: Cha Cha and Dong Dong, who spend most of the film fighting each other during the war between the White Bull Kingdom and the Black Bull Kingdom, are revealed to be brothers.
- Camera Abuse: When Wolffy tells Wolnie that they should probably let the goats enjoy their New Year's holiday, Wolnie hits him with a frying pan, causing him to hit the screen.
- Collapsing Lair: Sparky accidentally blows up a bomb made by Wolffy near the control panel in Cha Cha's lair, causing the lair to fall apart and flood. Everyone makes it out of the lair perfectly fine except for Weslie, who seemingly gets trapped in the lair, but even then he later makes it out perfectly fine as well because he landed in Granny Snail's slime and used some growing pills left by Wolffy to grow back to his normal size.
- Comically Missing the Point: When Wolnie asks Mr. Slowy where Wolffy is, her son Wilie copies her when she says "Mr. Slowy, where have you taken my husband to?", and Wolnie tells him that he should refer to him as his dad instead of his husband. Wilie then says "Dad, where have you taken my husband to?"
- Disney Death: There are two. First, Wolffy is eaten by Cha Cha, only for him and Weslie to be pooped back out when the latter uses some of Mr. Slowy's medicines on Cha Cha. Then, Weslie himself ends up stuck in Cha Cha's flooded headquarters, but comes back completely fine later after he is deposited in the toxins from Granny Snail and uses some enlargement pills left behind by Wolffy to return himself to his normal size.
- Early-Installment Weirdness:
- The film doesn't have the designated zodiac animal (the bull) featured as a character like the later ones. Instead, they simply give the bacteria kingdoms a bull motif in their names (White Bull Kingdom, Black Bull Kingdom, and Yellow Bull Kingdom).
- The film doesn't feature the goats and the wolves forming a team, something that the later films would become known for.
- Everyone Laughs Ending: The film ends with the goats laughing at Wolffy, Wolnie, and Wilie as they're launched into the air through a cannon.
- Fingerless Hands: The various bacteria from the White Bull Kingdom and the Black Bull Kingdom do not have visible fingers on their hands.
- Glass Smack and Slide: Wolffy suggests that Wolnie let him stop catching the goats for a while since they're having a party, and Wolnie hits him with her frying pan, which causes him to hit the screen and slide.
- Heroic Sacrifice: Weslie seems to sacrifice himself after saving Wilie and appears to be trapped inside the bacteria cave of Mr. Slowy's snail forever. He got out just fine.
- Incredible Shrinking Man: Mr. Slowy invents a ray to shrink the goats to bacteria size.
- Luminescent Blush: Dong Dong blushes in this fashion after explaining his backstory to the goats.
- Mirrored Confrontation Shot: An official piece of artwork features Weslie and an army of White Kingdom bacteria soldiers staring at Wolffy and an army of Black Kingdom bacteria soldiers, clearly intent on fighting each other.
- Piggy Bank: Mr. Slowy keeps the key for Old Mandy's various medicines for miniaturization in a piggy bank and breaks the bank with a hammer to get the key out.
- Shared Unusual Trait: Dong Dong and Cha Cha both have miscolored eyes (two red eyes and one blue eye) because they're brothers born from the same parents, who were from opposing factions and had to move to a remote mountain to be able to live with each other. The members of one faction have red eyes while the members of the other faction have blue eyes.
- Sudden Video-Game Moment: A Black Kingdom bacteria fighting a White Kingdom bacteria is made to look like a fighting game, with both having health bars and the Black Kingdom bacteria giving the White Kingdom bacteria quite the walloping in the form of a combo, K.O.-ing him.
- Waddling Head: The various bacteria from the White Bull and Black Bull Kingdoms are nothing but heads with feet, tails, and stubby arms.
- War Arc: The movie is about the goats shrinking to investigate what's made Mr. Slowy's snail friend sick. The cause of his illness is a war raging between two factions of bacteria that the goats assist in stopping.
